Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Chapter 486 The ugly son-in-law also wants to meet people

Ma Zheng, Ma Kuo's father and son, and Hu Yanqing were eager to return home. After a meeting with Ximen Qing that night, they left Huining City on horseback the next day and embarked on the road to return to the Song Dynasty.

Ximenqing's caravan was still doing business with the Jurchens of the Kingdom of Jin, so they couldn't go with Ma Kuo and the others, so they agreed to meet Ma Kuo and the others in Dengzhou when they were seeing off.

After watching Ma Kuo and the others leave, Ximenqing asked his brothers to continue trading with the Jurchens, while he visited old friends in the city, such as Wanyan Wuye, Wanyan Nianmeihua, and Wanyan Gushen.

At Wanyan Gushen's house, Ximen Qing negotiated another big deal.

Wanyan Gushen, Wanyan Moulianghu and others referred to Khitan characters and Chinese characters, and completed the creation of Jurchen characters in July, and the emperor Wanyan Aguda announced that it would be promulgated and promoted in Dajin.However, in order to complete the popularization and application of the newly created Jurchen script among the Jurchen nobles and bureaucrats of the Dajin Kingdom, first of all, it is necessary to print many books on the translation of Jurchen script, Khitan script, and Chinese characters, so that the Jurchens, Khitan scripts, and Chinese characters in the Dajin Kingdom People from Bohai, Han, Khitan and other ethnic groups can learn to recognize Jurchen characters.

In today's Daikin, craftsmen are scarce and printing technology is backward. Wanyan Gushen still can't find a workshop that can print such exquisite books as Ximen Qing brought.Therefore, after discussing with Wanyan Moulianghu, Wanyan Gushen submitted to Emperor Wanyan Aguda that he wanted to hand over the required Jurchen script books to Ximenqing for printing.After getting permission from Emperor Wanyan Aguda, Wanyan Gushen talked about the business with Ximen Qing.

On the land of Eastern Liaodong, the former Bohai State officially used Chinese characters, and later after the founding of the Khitan state, it imitated Chinese characters and created Khitan large and small characters.After the Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by the Khitan, the Bohai people and Han people in Liaodong still used Chinese characters, while the Khitan people used the Khitan script.

The Jurchens had no written language at the beginning, and the literate aristocrats in the Bohai Kingdom also used Chinese characters.After the demise of the Bohai Kingdom, the Khitan language was scarce in the early days under the control of the Khitan regime.Later, the mature Jurchen learned to use Chinese characters and Khitan characters, but few of the more primitive and barbaric raw Jurchen learned to write.

Roughly after Wanyan Aguda's ancestor Wanyan Porashu, the birth Jurchens of the Wanyan tribe began to learn the Khitan language.By the time of Wanyan Aguda's generation, he was already proficient in Khitan.

After Wanyan Aguda rebelled against the Liao Dynasty and was captured after breaking the Liao Dynasty, the Jurchens who gave birth began to know Khitan and Chinese, so Wanyan Aguda ordered the children of all ministries to learn Khitan.

After the founding of the Jurchen state, almost all official documents at home and abroad in the early days were in Khitan.However, the Khitan script is quite far from the Jurchen language of the Jin people, so the emperor Wanyan Aguda ordered Wanyan Gushen and others who had learned Khitan and Chinese characters to imitate the Khitan characters and Chinese characters to try out the Jurchen script.After the hard work of Wanyan Gushen and others, it was finally completed in July this year and promulgated by the emperor's edict.

With Khitan characters and Chinese characters already in use in China, the main purpose of creating Jurchen characters by the kings and ministers of the Dajin Kingdom was to declare the Jurchens’ national image to the world, emphasizing to the world that the Dajin Kingdom is equal to the Daliao Kingdom and the Da Song Kingdom s country.

After Ximen Qing had a long talk with Wanyan Gushen, he roughly understood the ins and outs of Wanyan Gushen's painstaking efforts to create the Jurchen script.What Ximenqing can understand means that the creation of Jurchen characters is a national image project of the newly established Dajin Kingdom. If you help the Jurchens to do this well, you can get more political benefits from the king and ministers of the Great Jin Kingdom, which is very conducive to expanding your business and earning huge profits within the sphere of influence of the Great Jin Kingdom.

How could the high official Ximen Qing refuse to have a chance for money?Ximen Qing and Gushen Wanyan drank wine and sang songs, and they sealed the deal.

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After being a guest at Wanyangushen's house, Ximenqing hung out with the acquaintances of the various clan nobles of the Wanyan tribe for several days, drinking in the stockade, or shooting and hunting on Hukai Mountain and Songpeng Mountain.

After hanging around for a few days as if nothing had happened, after Wanyan Qia Shi also bought many horses for Ximenqing, Ximenqing found Wanyan Moulianghu pretending to be worried, and told him that he had collected many good horses, but the horses brought by Song Guo The farmer who came here was not good at taking care of these Liaodong horses.Therefore, I hope that I can buy some herdsmen slaves from Wanyan Moulianghu to look after the horses for me.

For a Jurchen slave owner like Wanyan Moulianghu, buying and selling slaves was a very common thing, so how could he refuse this request from his old friend Ximen Qing?He gave Ximen Qing a preferential price and asked Ximen Qing to choose from among his slaves.

Ximen Qing once promised Bor Jijin? Alan to rescue all her fellow tribesmen, and this time he brought Ulunzhurige specially.When wandering around these days, Ximenqing had already taken Ulunzhurige with him as his maid, and asked her to quietly identify many captive slaves of the Mongolian Qiyan tribe for him.

Therefore, when Wanyan Qiashi was ordered to take Ximenqing to the stockade to select slaves, Ximenqing nonchalantly selected five captive slaves from the Qiyan tribe and one captive slave from the Khitan tribe among the slaves.

Using the same method, Ximenqing bought more than [-] slaves from the Mongolian Qiyan tribe from other nobles in a few days.Of course, in order to deceive others, Ximen Qing also bought seven or eight captive slaves from other tribes at the same time.In this way, it will not be easy to be detected that he is buying Mongolians on purpose.

When Jiao Ting, Shi Jin, Zhu Biao, Hu Yong, Xin Zuo and others sold out all the goods they brought this time, and each bought the special products of Liaodong, and Yan Qing also received many antiques, Ximen Qing's The caravan left Huining City with more than 30 rescued slaves, and went to Ningjiang Prefecture in the southwest.

On the way to Ningjiang Prefecture, after crossing the Lailiu River, Ximenqing asked the caravan to stay where it was, and he took people to escort the Mongolian Agula across the Songwa River and entered the territory of Changchun Prefecture of Liao Kingdom.After making some secret instructions, Ximen Qing handed over the secret letter written by Alan to his father Boer Jijin? The Mongolian begging tribe.

This time, in order to prevent accidents when encountering thieves again, Ximen Qing asked Jiao Ting to personally lead fifty strong bodyguards on fast horses to escort Agula home.After arriving at the Qiyan tribe in Mongolia and seeing Alan's father, Boer Jijin? Tunbinai, Jiao Ting traveled across Liaodong and returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

In order to establish contact with the Mongolian Begging Yan tribe and cooperate in the future, Ximenqing must let Jiao Ting take this risk. This can also be regarded as an experience for "faceless" Jiao Ting.

Furthermore, Ulunzhurige has become a woman of Jiao Ting, and as the son-in-law of a Mongolian, Jiao Ting should also go to the prairie to see it, and by the way, he can also take the opportunity to meet Ulunzhurige's family.

An ugly son-in-law always wants to see his father-in-law and his mother-in-law!

Chapter 487 Jin Liao two countries are about to fight

After seeing off Jiao Ting and Agula, Ximen Qing crossed the river and returned to the east bank of the Songwa River, and continued to march with the caravan. One day later, they arrived at Ningjiang Prefecture, where Wanyan Yinshu could be stationed.

Because the emperor Wanyan Aguda has issued an order to Wanyan Yinshuke to fight the whole army, Ningjiang Prefecture is now in a state of preparation, the morale in the barracks is high, and groups of soldiers coming and going are shining coldly with spears and spears, full of chills Qi.

Wanyan Yinshu warmly received Ximen Qing and his party in the city. After eating and drinking with everyone, he happily rode a horse and took Ximen Qing and others to visit his barracks.

Fortunately, the troops were about to be dispatched, this Wanyan Yinshu and his two barbaric brothers finally restrained themselves from drinking and did not get drunk.Otherwise, Ximen Qing would not want to be with this monster who would go crazy with alcohol and kill people after drinking.

Wanyan Yinshu could point to the golden soldiers in the barracks with the strength of wine, and boasted to Ximenqing and the others: "Brother Ximenqing, last time you and Shi Tuhei came to my Ningjiang prefecture, I said, Those Khitan dog thieves have always been cunning and hypocritical, how could they sincerely ask for peace? The Khitan dog is just delaying the time and wants to regroup the army to fight again. Now the facts have proved that my silver technique is true! Emperor Aguda has decided to send troops to attack Liao Brother Ximenqing, if you arrive in Ningjiang Prefecture a few days later, you won’t be able to see me! To tell you the truth, Brother Ximenqing, I will take these warriors under my command to cross the Song Wa River in three days and line up in the In Changchun Prefecture, the Khitan guard Yeluchi Gou'er was threatened to clear the way for our Dajin army. That Yeluchi Gou'er was frightened by our army long ago, and he must have fled when he heard my silver-handed name! Simon Brother Qing, next time you come to our Dajin Kingdom, I'm afraid that you and I will have to meet in Changchun Prefecture in Liao Kingdom."

When talking about marching and fighting beside Ximen Qing, the belligerent Wanyan Yinshu exuded a frightening aura.The famous general of the Liao Kingdom, Yeluchi Gou'er, was as vulnerable as a chicken and a dog in Wanyan Yinshu.

"General Yinshuke's officers and men are really rare tigers in the world! Since General Yinshuke is about to go to war, I wish General Yinshuke a successful start and good news will spread frequently!" Ximen Qing said to Wanyan Yinshuke Blessed said.

"Brother Ximenqing, you must bring more good wine next time. I, Yinshu, am afraid that our army will not have enough celebration wine after the war! Hahaha~" Wanyan Yinshu laughed confidently.

"In this expedition, if General Yinshuke can capture Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing in the Liao Kingdom, brother, I will give General Yinshuke a cart of fine wine as a congratulatory gift! I don't know what General Yinshuke wants?" Ximen Qing said to Wanyan Silver surgery can be said generously.

Ximen Qing remembered that after the failure of Liao and Jin peace negotiations in history, Wanyan Aguda's goal in Jin's expedition this time was the Liao Kingdom's Shangjing Linhuang Mansion.If the goal of Wanyan Aguda, the lord of the Kingdom of Jin, has not changed, then the Battle of Changchun Prefecture that Wanyan Yinshu will launch is just a prelude to this battle.

Although the last time Ximenqing borrowed Jin soldiers to cross the river to wipe out the robbers, the tension in the Liao Kingdom suddenly increased, and the breakdown of the negotiations between Liao and Jin was postponed for some time, but the small matter of borrowing troops was still very important to the king and ministers of the Jin Kingdom. There was no real impact.Therefore, Ximenqing didn't notice anything unusual in the territory of the Kingdom of Jin, and presumably it would not change the original attack plan of the Kingdom of Jin.

As long as there are no accidents, the target of the Jin army's campaign will not change. Ximenqing predicts that the battle of Shangjing Linhuangfu will still happen in the future.

Ximen Qing didn't know who in the Jin army took down Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing.However, this does not prevent him from giving Wanyan Yinshu a verbal benefit first, which will deepen Wanyan Yinshu's affection for him.After all, in the past few years when the Kingdom of Jin conquered Liao Dynasty, you still have to earn more money from these upstarts in the Kingdom of Jin, right?

Just when Ximenqing and his party came to Ningjiang Prefecture to pay a visit to Wanyan Yinshuke, the Liao Kingdom had also noticed the recent changes in the Jin Army. Fifty thousand were stationed in the west of Changchun Prefecture, northeast of Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Ningzhou between the Hun River, Rabbit Mountain and Dafu River, to embolden the Yeluchi Dog Army in Changchun Prefecture and serve as the backing of Changchun Prefecture.

In order to gather troops for a decisive battle with the Jin army, Xiao Yixue, who is the commander of the Northeast Road, issued a mobilization order to the Wugulie Command Army Division north of Ningzhou, asking all the grasslands to recruit warriors, cross Jinshan and go south to Ningzhou to join his army. place.

Xiao Yixue's messenger and Jiao Ting and Agula sent by Ximenqing crossed Jinshan almost at the same time and rushed to the bank of Onan River.

Ximenqing bid farewell to Wanyan and Yinshuke, and when they went all the way south, the Jin and Liao armies were already at war, and the Song Wajiang and Xiliao river basins were full of battle clouds.

When Ximenqing and his party arrived at Liaoyang Mansion, they saw that Wulin Moshi Tuhei, the guard general of Liaoyang Mansion, had already mobilized his entire army, and Bo Jingoushi, the governor of Hesuguan, also brought his seven allied forces to Liaoyang Mansion to join forces with them. There is a joint army of Wulin, stone, soil and black.They are about to cross the Liaohe River, join forces with Dutong and Diebojilie Wanyanwolu on the South Road of Jin State, go west to Xianzhou, Yizhou, and Liaoxi Prefecture, and join forces with Nanjing, the King of Qin and Jin Dynasties stationed in Jinzhou. Marshal Yeluchun's army faced off across Linghe, waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack.

Jin Guonan Road Dutong and Diebo Jilie Wanyan Wulu are the younger brother of the Prime Minister Wanyan Sagai and the uncle of Wanyan Nianbudou.Wanyan Wulu was brave and good at fighting, and he defeated the Koryo army when he was young.After Jurchen raised the flag to fight against Liao, he led a Jurchen army to go south and defeated Gao Yongchang from Bohai, who proclaimed himself emperor in Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo, Liao. After that, he repeatedly defeated the armies of Yeluchun and others in Liao, and captured Xianzhou, Xianzhou, Yizhou and other places.

Wanyan Aguda, the lord of the Kingdom of Jin, trusted Wanyan Wolu's bravery very much, and entrusted Wanyan Wolu with all the offensives on the Jin Kingdom South Road.Wanyan Wulu's legion also has clan warriors such as Wanyan Jiamu, Wanyan Pucha, Wanyan Digunai, Wanyan Wulugu, etc., as well as warriors from various tribes such as Wulin Moshi Tuhei and Goushi. The Liao army looked at it covetously, and put on an active offensive posture.

For a while, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom lost sight of the other, not knowing which direction the Jin army would launch the main attack from the north and the south.

The war between the Liao and Jin Dynasties seems to be about to break out, but to Ximen Qing, this is just a good show that can be watched with a cold eye.Whether the Khitans killed the Jurchens, or the Jurchens killed the Khitans, in the eyes of Senior Official Ximen Qing, they were reducing some enemies for his future.

Therefore, at the banquet, Ximenqing sincerely toasted Wulin Shituhei and Goushi to show their courage and military prestige. Suguan left Suzhou Pass again, set sail at Tieshan Port Wharf, crossed the Bohai Sea and returned to Dengzhou without any danger.

During this trip to the Kingdom of Jin, Ximenqing, Hujiazhuang, Zhujiazhuang, Xinjiazhuang and Yanqing representing Lu Junyi and other brothers all made a lot of money and made a fortune.Everyone on the boat was all smiling.

Only "Jiuzhilong" Shi Jin was still full of ideas, leaving a little regret - how could I be so unlucky this time, I didn't encounter robbers and robbery, but where did I go to save a tribal princess?

Chapter 488 Going South to Seek a Doctor

Ximenqing went ashore in Dengzhou, and after returning to Ximenzhuang, before he had time to celebrate the fruitful harvest of his northbound business trip, and even failed to meet Ma Kuo and others, he saw the old supervisors Ximen Zhong and Shi Yong hurriedly greeted him. come.

"Brother Ximen, you are back! Brother almost sent someone across the sea to look for you! Brother, please speak while you have something important to report." Shi Yong said to Ximen Qing impatiently.

Seeing the expressions of the old supervisors Ximen Zhong and Shi Yong, Ximen Qing knew that something difficult must have happened at home after he left.He hurriedly asked Shi Jin to stay and settle down the brothers in the caravan. He hurried a few steps, followed Ximen Zhong and Shi Yong into a side room, and asked them, "Uncle Zhong, Brother Shi Yong, why are you so panicked?" ? But the robbers from Liangshanpo attacked my Ximen Fort?"

"Don't do Liangshan robbers. Brother Ximen, Brother Luan Tingyu from Yanggu County sent an urgent letter, saying that the little lady Alan you brought home has suddenly fallen ill and is bedridden!" Shi Yong said eagerly. .

"Brother Shi Yong, what did you just say? Alan fell ill?" Ximen Qing looked at Shi Yong in disbelief and asked.